In a catalog of new books from Duke University Press there's one that might contain
something of interest to Kipling society members -- at least to those attuned
to 21st-century academic jargon. The description of "For the Record: On Sexuality
and the Colonial Archive in India" by Anjali Arondekar ("Associate Professor of
Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz" contains such discouraging
phrases as "spatial and temporal logics" and "recuperative hermeneutics". We are
promised that "each chapter addresses a form of archival loss, troped either in
a language of disappearance or paucity, simulacrum or detritus: from Richard Burton's
missing report on male brothels in Karachi (1845) ... to the archival detritus
of Kipling's stories about the Indian Mutiny of 1857". Caveat lector.
The ISBN is 978-0-8223-4533-6 (paper) and 978-0-8223-4515-2 (cloth).
Fred Lerner, D.L.S.
Information Scientist
National Center for PTSD
VA Medical Center (116D)
White River Junction, Vermont 05009 USA
phone (802) 296 5132
fax (802) 296 5135
internet <[log in to unmask]>
website <www.ncptsd.va.gov>
Research Associate in Psychiatry
Dartmouth Medical School
|